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Writing in a second language...is like wearing someone else's skin, an act akin to religious conversion.

— Ayelet Tsabari Disappearance/Muteness (2021)

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I'm just about to cross the street to Café Rimon when I see Natalie sitting on the shaded patio and my heart skips, trips and falls over itself.

I know about death…Our country is haunted by its dead, weighed down by loss and remembrance.

The Art of Leaving (2019)

Leaving, I discovered, did not cure my displacement, but rather reinforced it.

The Art of Leaving (2019)

Home became the liminal space in between-between identities, between cultures, between languages- and I was content claiming that space as my own, pleased to be different.

The Art of Leaving (2019)

Israel is a very small place, as you know, there’s something that can feel very familial about it, which is both positive and not so positive at different times and different instances.

with Times of Israel (2019)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

Suman Pokhrel

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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